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tetany
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tetany \Tet"a*ny\, n. (Med.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1890, from French tétanie "intermitent tetanus," from Modern Latin tetania (see tetanus).
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism
WordNet
n. clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis [syn: tetanilla, intermittent tetanus, intermittent cramp, apyretic tetanus]
Wikipedia
Tetany or tetany seizure is a medical sign consisting of the involuntary contraction of muscles, which may be caused by disease or other conditions that increase the action potential frequency of muscle cells or the nerves that innervate them. Muscle cramps which are caused by the disease tetanus are not classified as tetany; rather, they are due to a lack of inhibition to the neurons that supply muscles.
Usage examples of "tetany".
As they come, she went rigid, as if in the stiffening grip of tetany, and the doctors looked at each other significantly.
As tetany progressed and worsened, the animal died, either out of sheer exhaustion or because the muscles that closed its larynx did so in a tight death grip so that, in effect, the animal throttled itself and died of asphyxiation.
It was a little, dun-colored creature, disarmingly like a sparrow, but 11am went into instant tetany at the sight, like a rabbit freezing at the sight of a snake.
MacHinery perked his chin over his shoulder toward Horsefield, whose face had frozen into complete tetany as soon as he had shown signs of realizing what was going on.
Gretchen Keck was among them, the face above the soft young body set in a smiling tetany of embarrassment.